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Doesn't this apply to all "democratic" countries?
Not all of them have a formalized lobbying mechanism. It still happens, but at least there's a chance of a corruption sentence if it's scandalous. In the US they are called "super donations" and bragged about
it sure does, the US is just the most blatant about it